The Productivity Commission release its research report into the ‘Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth’ in May 2006. According to the Commission’s findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small, overall contribution to Australia’s future per capita...

This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross{sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants. The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their rst twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...